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Bombadil

Check out a video we shot of Bombadil performing 'Honeymoon' at North Star Bar a few weeks ago. If you missed the show, fret not, they will be returning to the Philly area very soon - April 5th @ the ...Read More

The great Philly-based blog, What's Protocol? posted up a great little feature on the Big School label. We're honored! If you aren't hip to WP? may we suggest adding it to your aggregator of choice? Their crew of writers tirelessly ...Read More

The members of Point Reyes have announced several dates for their cross-country tour in July/August - more deets on the Field Trips page. You definitely won't regret experiencing the band live plus they should have Golden vinyl in their hands ...Read More

Pretty excited (understatement) to announce that Bombadil will be making an appearance here in Philly on Saturday 6/30 at the M Room alongside Conveyor and local favorite Gracie. That's a pretty damn solid bill so I can't think of any ...Read More

Thanks to the fine folks @ Shuffle Mag for premiering the bonus track found only on the All That The Rain Promises vinyl release. Bryan is right - you can continuously loop it for additional pleasures. Pre-order the LP here. Read More

There's no possible way to bottle up our excitement surrounding our involvement with Bombadil and All That The Rain Promises. With that said, we're finally ready to announce the next step - pre-orders! We mentioned the details last week but ...Read More

Big School is excited to announce that we'll be giving the vinyl treatment to Bombadil's fantastic All That The Rain Promises release. We've been a fan of the collective since first laying ears on the A Buzz, Buzz single way ...Read More

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Uh-oh, it’s Big School Records release announcement time, y’all! I’ve had the great pleasure of working with The Appleseed Cast and Deep Elm Records again – this time I’ve put together the first ever vinyl issue for the band’s Lost Songs compilation. The LP pressing is on heavyweight, split colored (black & blue) vinyl and each of the records are foil-st […]

Spring Batch: hopeforthetapedeck: Spring is afoot and we’ve got three new tapes to announce set for release in late June. All 3 are limited to 100 copies - including our first ever cassingle! The other two tapes will still feature slipcover versions for the first 22 orders so delay not! P1XEL AND THE SILVER SPHINX is a… Get on it, folks! […]

I won’t be the first to say this but 2014 was, by no means, a strong year for music. 2013 wasn’t exactly a bonanza either. Perhaps I’m rounding the corner to becoming that old, jaded asshole who’s always mumbling about ‘kids these days’. Fortunately, I just feel that 'indie’ or 'alternative’ have taken on new meanings/divisions and I simply need to […]

Tres Tapes!: hopeforthetapedeck:We’ve readied up three more tapes! It seems like just yesterday when we announced the last batch but we’re kinda bursting at the seams with dudely music to get out there. On a sad note we had to up the price of new tapes by 50 cents and scale back the 5for20 to 4for20 but hell, that’s still pretty… […]